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Favorite Dishes in Famous Homes

In addition to the large variety of recipes in this book, we present contributions from the wives of famous men in all parts of America. The wife of President Taft and Vice- President Sherman each commend their favorite dish, while from wives of U. S. Senators and the Governors of various States come excellent recipes. The value of such recipes consists not only in an interesting study of what are favorite dishes in famous homes, but in a most valuable addition to the cookery encyclopedia of every housewife. Many of the recipes are for fine old-fashioned dishes, such toothsome gingerbread, brown bread, and an excellent mince-meat.

Here we find food peculiar to a certain part of the country, such as the Governor of Florida's fried okra, or a toothsome chicken pie, suggested by Mrs. Dawson, the wife of the Governor of West Virginia. There are various recipes which are unlike any found in ordinary cookbook literature; for instance, a delicious angel-food pudding, Mrs. Chester Long's favorite cake, Hamburg cookies, Frankfort pudding, potato cake, and raspberry buns. Each recipe is well worth trying, and, once tried, it will become a favorite in thousands of homes. as From Mrs. William H. Taft.

Sponge Pudding. cupful sugar, cupful flour, + cupful butter, 1 pint boiled milk, 5 eggs.

Mix sugar and flour, wet with a lit tle cold water and stir into the boiling milk. Cook until it thickens and is smooth. Add the butter and when well mixed stir it into the well-beaten yolks of the eggs. Then add the whites beaten stiff and bake in a shallow dish or cups, placing them in a pan of hot water while in the oven.

Serve with creamy sauce.

From Mrs. J. S. Sherman, wife of Vice-President.

Saratoga Pudding. 2 cupfuls coarse bread crumbs, 4 eggs, 1 quart sweet milk, 1 cupful sugar, Pinch salt, cupful raisins, Butter, size of walnut, Flavoring, milk or vanilla.

After baking, spread with layer currant jelly before putting on meringue. From Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife of U. S.

Senator from Utah.

Five-Egg Orange Cake. 5 eggs, cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, cupful milk, 3 cupfuls flour, 1½ teaspoonfuls vanilla, 1½ teaspoonfuls baking powder.

Beat sugar and butter to a cream, drop in yolks of eggs, thoroughly beaten, add 1 cupful flour, milk, then another cupful flour, beating FAVORITE DISHES IN FAMOUS HOMES 1025 thoroughly all the time. Add rest of flour, with whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake in layer tins in moderate oven.

Filling for the Cake Beat white of 1 egg to a stiff froth, and add 1 teacupful pulverized sugar; grate the outside of an orange down to the white, squeeze out juice, and add to frosting.

From Mrs. Joseph W. Bailey, wife of U. S. Senator from Texas.

Stuffed Tomatoes.

Take fresh, firm tomatoes, and cut pulp from them with a sharp knife. Mix together chopped cucumber, onion to taste, cabbage, pepper, celery and salt, with some pulp of tomato. Place this mixture in scooped tomatoes and serve on lettuce with a garnish of mayonnaise.

From Mrs. J. W. Burrows, wife of U.

S. Senator from Michigan.

Delicious Fruit Punch.

Sweeten juice of 8 lemons and 4 oranges to taste. Just before serving, place a square of ice in a punch bowl and pour over it sweetened juice, then add 2 quarts Apollinaris water or White Rock, and garnish with a bunch of grapes laid on ice. A gill of raspberry or blackberry juice left over from canned fruit adds a beautiful color to the punch as well as a fine flavor.

From Mrs. B. R. Tillman, wife of U. S. Senator from South Carolina.

Tillie's Gingerbread. 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful butter, 4 eggs, 2 cupfuls molasses, 4 cupfuls sour milk, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon, 2 teaspoonfuls salt, 2 teaspoonfuls ground ginger, 5 cupfuls flour.

Cream together butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten, molasses, then sour milk, and, last, flour with which has been sifted spices, salt, and soda.

Bake in moderate oven.

From Mrs. Robert J. Gamble, wife of U. S. Senator from South Dakota.

Hamburg Cookies. 1 pound granulated sugar, 12 eggs, 3 pounds butter, 1 ounce carbonate ammonia, 10c. worth oil of lemon.

Powder ammonia, dissolve in 1 egg, add balance of eggs and sugar, and beat for an hour. Add flour, lemon, and butter (not melted); mix with enough flour to make dough as stiff as can be rolled. Keep it on ice till ready to roll. With a cooky cutter shape like lady's fingers. Sprinkle pans with flour before putting in cookies, and bake. The butter should have all the salt washed out of it twenty-four hours before using. This makes a delicious cooky when putting up boxes of cake at the Christmas season. They are very delicate and will keep for weeks. It looks like an expensive recipe, but is not when you consider the quantity of cookies it makes.

From Mrs. John Sharp Williams, wife of U. S. Senator from Mississippi.

Candy.

Have two saucepans; into one put 3 cupfuls granulated sugar, 1 cupful thick sirup, and cupful water. Into the other pan put 1 cupful granulated sugar and a gill water. Allow contents of both pans to cook until sirup will spin a thread or make a soft ball between the fingers when dropped in cold water. When both are ready, turn slowly sirup in first pan over stiffly beaten whites 3 eggs, and beat constantly during process. Into second sirup stir 1 cupful chopped nuts, add to other, and pour frothy mass into buttered tins to cool. When cold, mark in blocks with very sharp knife.

MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK From Mrs. Chester I. Long, wife of U. S. Senator from Kansas.

A Favorite Cake. 4 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls baking powder, 1 cupful milk, 1 cupful butter.

Cream butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs and milk, then flour sifted with baking powder. After heating these thoroughly, add stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Bake in three layers and put together with following filling: 1 quart double cream, 1 pound pecans, 1 pound seeded raisins.

Whip cream to a froth, sweeten, and put between layers. Chop nuts and raisins and sprinkle over cream between each, also on top. This makes a cake which may be served alone as a dessert. It is a favorite with all our friends.

From Mrs. P. J. McCumber, wife of U. S. Senator from North Dakota Chocolate Cookies.

Beat to a cream ½ cupful butter and 1 tablespoonful lard; gradually beat into this 1 cupful sugar. Add 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 2 ounces chocolate (melted over steam), 1 beaten egg, and teaspoonful soda dissolved in 2 tablespoonfuls sour milk. Stir in 2½ cupfuls flour. Roll thin and cut with cooky cutter. Bake in hot oven.

When cold, spread chocolate frosting on each cooky; on top of each put half a walnut meat.

From Mrs. Nathan Bay Scott, wife of U. S. Senator from West Virginia.

Old-Fashioned Pound Cake. 1 pound butter, 1 pound sugar, 10 eggs, 1 pound flour.

Butter and sugar are first creamed, then yolks of eggs added, then flour.

The rule is to beat for an hour, but sometimes you get tired before hour is up. Last, fold in whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth; bake slowly an hour.

From Governor Albert W. Gilchrist of Florida Fried Okra.

Take several pods tender okra, wash thoroughly, and cut into thin pieces crosswise: beat 2 eggs, season with salt and pepper, dip okra first into sifted meal, then into egg, again into meal, and fry in butter.

From Mrs. B. B. Brooks, wife of Gov ernor of Wyoming.

Drop Cakes. 1½ cupfuls brown sugar, 1 cupful butter, 1½ cupfuls sweet milk, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful each, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg, 1 cupful chopped raisins, 1 cupful broken English walnuts, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.